Joe Lieberman Quotes

We need to increase education budgets.

As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement.

I am going to use every rostrum and every forum and every searchlight that I can to tell the people of the country and their elected representatives that we can no longer afford overcrowded classrooms and half-day sessions. We just must not, we just cannot afford the great waste that comes from the neglect of a single child.

For many years we have spent a great deal of effort and money on school reform. Yet where are we today?

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

We should have better schools.

We need better public education and more realistic education.

I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.

We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.

I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

The most important domestic issue we face is education…and education is so broken.

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

It is possible to have a public education system that works.

It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.

Whenever there are changes to school budgets, we know teachers feel it first.

I strongly believe that more money needs to be spent in the classroom.

Education needs to be our state's top priority.

A great economy requires great public schools.